Quotes About Opportunity

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

I think that you cannot have everything in life, and sometimes you just - destiny wants you to take another path.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Knowing my circumstances from which I came and the path I was headed down, to be where I am, I'm blessed.

Everybody has a different path to making it in this league. I was fortunate to get an opportunity here in Brooklyn.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

You go through the door that's open. Sometimes, it's the path that's in front of you.

We need to ensure that everyone's got a path to getting a license, so they've got identification.

People still create limitations and laws for women. But every woman deserves to choose her own path.

Being over at Ford offers a much clearer path in my development.

They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.

Growing up in the inner city, you might not see a lot of different career paths and different jobs.

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

If you look at the paths of other actors, most people have a curve where you hit it and there's a time where you make a lot of money and they let you make your movies, and then they take it away and it's gone.

I think people who are not rich can be extremely happy. And I think the chances to be happy in this new world - with many more opportunities to be creative, to be online, to educate yourself - there'll be a lot more chances to be happy. It's not to say everyone will take them, but there will be a lot of new paths to opportunity.

There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.

When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.

America is still the land of opportunity, and hard work is still a pathway to success.

The enjoyment of playing football gave me a positive pathway, but I could have taken a very different path.

There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.